How to disable back swipe gesture in UINavigationController on iOS 7

Question

In iOS 7 Apple added a new default navigation behavior. You can swipe from the left edge of the screen to go back on the navigation stack. But in my app, this behavior conflicts with my custom left menu. So, is it possible to disable this new gesture in UINavigationController?

Answer 1

I found a solution:

Objective-C:

if ([self.navigationController respondsToSelector:@selector(interactivePopGestureRecognizer)]) {     self.navigationController.interactivePopGestureRecognizer.enabled = NO; } 

Swift 3+:
self.navigationController?.interactivePopGestureRecognizer?.isEnabled = false

Answer 2

I found out setting the gesture to disabled only doesn't always work. It does work, but for me it only did after I once used the backgesture. Second time it wouldn't trigger the backgesture.

Fix for me was to delegate the gesture and implement the shouldbegin method to return NO:

- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {     [super viewDidAppear:animated];      // Disable iOS 7 back gesture     if ([self.navigationController respondsToSelector:@selector(interactivePopGestureRecognizer)]) {         self.navigationController.interactivePopGestureRecognizer.enabled = NO;         self.navigationController.interactivePopGestureRecognizer.delegate = self;     } }  - (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated {     [super viewWillDisappear:animated];      // Enable iOS 7 back gesture     if ([self.navigationController respondsToSelector:@selector(interactivePopGestureRecognizer)]) {         self.navigationController.interactivePopGestureRecognizer.enabled = YES;         self.navigationController.interactivePopGestureRecognizer.delegate = nil;     } }  - (BOOL)gestureRecognizerShouldBegin:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer {     return NO; }